KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas.
Senior state health officials said motorboats used to ferry people would be hired by NRHM officials for ferrying pregnant women
Union minister for health and family welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Wednesday, rued the rate of decline in various key health indicators like maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate and death and morbidity due to communicable diseases.
He, however, complimented the successive governments of the southern and western states for improving health infrastructure and h
India, with a population of more than 1 billion people, has many challenges in improving the health and nutrition of its citizens. Steady declines have been noted in fertility, maternal, infant and child mortalities, and the prevalence of severe manifestations of nutritional deficiencies, but the pace has been slow and falls short of national and Millennium Development Goal targets.
Encouraging results have been yielded by Janani Express, Janani Sahyogi and Janani Suraksha schemes implemented by the state government with a view to bringing down mother mortality rate (MMR) in Madhya Pradesh. More than 18 lakh women have been benefited by these schemes this year following which MMR has come down to 335 per lakh from 370 per lakh.
The objective of this study is to provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating
maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh.
An Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishment for certain period before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits.
Rajahmundry, Dec. 6: The newly formed community health and nutrition centres will play a vital role to bring down infant and maternal mortality rates and also total fertility rate as per the norms set by the National Rural Health Mission in East Godavari district.
The "State of breastfeeding in 33 countries” is a report of the assessment done in thecountries, as part of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) of their infant and young child feeding policies and programmes aimed at enabling women to successfully breastfeed their babies as well as manage to provide good complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding after the age of
Underscoring the need for all departments to come together while addressing the problem of malnutrition, prime minister Manmohan Singh has said that existing programmes should be restructured if they are not helping in removing the scourge.
